Near real-time medical data dissemination in m-Health
Richard K. Lomotey, Rahnuma Kazi, Ralph Deters · 2012
The health sector is one of the primary beneficiaries of the smartphone and tablet boom. These devices are employed by the healthcare professionals to facilitate varying forms of healthcare delivery known as m-Health. But more specifically, these devices are used as medical data consumption nodes. However, mobile devices primarily communicate over wireless mediums and this leads to undesired communication latency in large mobile distributed systems due to the intermittent loss in connectivity.